I just started playing the new Tomb Raider game and like a lot of modern games, it insists on those irritating press-the-right-button-at-the-right-moment minigames or quick time events to get your character through a sticky situation.

One of these is a shrinking circle where apparently you're supposed to press something at a specific moment, but no matter what you do it just doesn't want to work.

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White circle getting smaller — Tap repeatedly melee key (default F). This QTE is bugged - circle animation is out of sync
with trigger behind QTE and therefore it is difficult win this QTE
normally. Luckily there is no penalization for missing said trigger
with key press so pressing melee key for whole duration of QTE works
perfectly.